---
title: Watch data flow into the Elastic Stack
description: You may not see data flow into the Elastic Stack right away; that’s normal. The addition of a pod annotation does not trigger an automatic restart. Therefore,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/apm/k8s-attacher/apm-webhook-watch-data
products:
  - APM
  - APM Attacher for Kubernetes
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Watch data flow into the Elastic Stack
You may not see data flow into the Elastic Stack right away; that’s normal. The addition of a pod annotation does not trigger an automatic restart. Therefore, existing pods will will not be affected by the APM Attacher. Only new pods — as they are created via the natural lifecycle of a Kubernetes deployment — will be instrumented. Restarting pods you’d like instrumented manually will speed up this process, but that workflow is too specific to individual deployments to make any recommendations.